In Reply to: I never understood why MS didn't go the route of an emulator ala Rosetta posted by danny kaey on August 24, 2006 at 19:26:42:
It's because of the "Microsoft way" - the majority of Microsoft development is done by very bright but recent university graduates. In other words, "mini Bill Gates"They have great productivity, and occasionally fantastic innovation, but it does mean Microsoft tends to have a "not invented here" syndrome and often the same mistakes are repeated again and again by each new team. Also the design tends to be long on "kruftiness" but sometimes short on the bigger architecture picture and longer term maintenance issues are sometimes not well thought through.
Take DLLs for example. Microsoft made the same mistake as Sun in not considering versioning - hence the issues we all face today. At least Sun was able to rectify their mistake - Microsoft took too long and the flawed design became entrenched.
I can understand "not invented here" because one believes one can do a better job, but jeez at least try and learn from your competitors' mistakes! :-)
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